Jay Chou's 'Pandamen' confirmed to air next year

It seems that CTS wants to heat up Friday nights. After Zai Zai’s ‘Black & White’ received good ratings, they will now pass the baton to Jay Chou’s self-directed, self-produced & guest starring ‘Pandamen’. Not only does it star Jerry Yan, Wilber Pan, Shawn Yue & Will Liu, his rumoured girlfriend Jessie Chiang is also one of the female leads. It seems that Jay Chou wants to prove that not only does he support his best friends, he also cares for his girlfriend.

Currently during the 10 pm slot on Friday nights, besides CTV’s ‘One Million Star’, FTV, SETTV & CTS are all broadcasting television series. CTS broadcasted Golden Bell favourite ‘Black & White’ and the ratings remained high. And after CTS bought the broadcasting rights of Jay Chou’s big work ‘Pandamen’, there were outside rumours saying that it was impossible for it to air on the known ‘cold’ Friday nights. However after careful assessment, they decided to keep to their decision, and it is now confirmed that the drama will air on the 22nd of January next year.

Jay Chou previously said that ‘Pandamen’ is a television series filmed like a movie. The production fees are estimated to surpass $100 million. In the drama, Jay plays a valiant police detective, but his scenes are much less than Nan Quan Mama’s Yu Hao & Devon (Dan Tou) who are the main leads. But Jay says loyally: “If I have a lot of scenes, then what are they supposed to do?”

In the drama, Jay’s rumoured girlfriend Jessie Chiang plays ‘JVR Music’ teacher but she doesn’t have many scenes with Jay. Rather she plays a couple with Yu Hao, but there are not many intimate scenes between them, seeming to show Jay’s ‘over-protectiveness’.

Because ‘Pandamen’ has many scenes filmed in the zoo, CTS is planning on organizing a charity event with the city zoo.

source : asianfanatics.net

Jay Chou new Sci-Fi film PandaMen

After revealing plans to make "Secret 2", Taiwanese singer Jay Chou also announced plans to enter the TV serial market and make a sci-fi drama on pandas.

Jay Chou's sci-fi idol drama "Pandamen" hasn't started filming yet, news concerning Jacqueline Li, Sara becoming the "J Girl" has already been spread about. Yesterday the promoters of "Pandamen" hurriedly released a statement: "The new "J Girl" hasn't been selected yet, the reports from the various media are not accurate". In the statement there was also mention of a important news: "An important point of the "J Girl" is she must be a newcomer."

The promoters of "Pandamen" expressed, the media exposed the news that the hopes of either Jacqueline Li or Sara becoming the female lead in "Pandamen" are big, this made the promoters very confused: "We have never revealed the candidates for the female lead, these reports have not made any inquiries to us, they might just be guessing." About the female lead, the promoters expressed: "1, the first requirement of the J Girl is "new", this is what Jay Chou wished for, 2, the reports online about the candidates for "J Girl" are not accurate." According to reports, the female lead will be brought from Mainland China, they are in the process of selecting, for this the two crews from the two places for this drama have interacted and communicated more with each other. Jay Chou himself also expressed his expectation of the Mainland China female lead: "She should be a beautiful girl with big eyes and long hair, plus she must have an elegant and classy temperament." As to how he will find such a rare person, Jay Chou expressed he was willing to look everywhere. Most of the other Mainland China actors for this drama have already been confirmed.

According to reports, the Taiwanese cast for this drama have basically been set, the two heroes "Super Pandaman" and "Pandaman" will be played by "Nan Quan Mama" members Yuhao and Devon. Jay Chou himself will make a special appearance in the drama, he has a lot of scenes and is very important. Newcomer Jessie Chiang will play one of the female leads in the drama - the music teacher. According to reports, a lot of Jay Chou's good friends in the circle, such as Jerry Yan, Wilber Pan and others will guest star. A part of the drama will be filmed in Xiamen and Shanghai. Up to now, all the preparation work for "Pandamen" are just about done, this drama is being filmed by both sides of the shore, the official collaboration is awaiting approval from The State Administration for Radio, Film and TV, when the approval arrives they will select a date to begin filming.